Startup spotlight: Iwoca – taking fintech lending to a new level

iwoca offers flexible credit to small businesses across Europe, allowing them to take advantage of opportunities previously only available to their larger peers. From placing larger stock orders to bridging cash flow gaps, finance helps power their customer’s growth.

Iwoca was founded in 2012, employs over 120 people and has raised as raised £21 million of investment from Prime Ventures, as well as existing investors. It lets small businesses get at online credit facility — a bit like a business overdraft. Since their launch in 2012 they’ve lent over £250m to 12,000 SMEs across Europe, from “one man bands” to multi-million pound businesses. Along the way they have built a leading technology platform, won numerous awards and grown a fun and vibrant team aiming to provide financing to 1 million small businesses.

But the amazing news is that they are continuously expanding and they are hiring right now. Take a look at the open positions and you might have the chance to work in one the most rapidly growing fintech startups in UK:

Python Engineer

Job Description:

We are looking for passionate developers with an eagerness to work in a collaborative environment to build an awesome product that will help SME’s across the world.

We run our Django-powered site on AWS, use asynchronous tools (Twisted, Celery) for time-consuming tasks and scientific libraries (numpy, scipy, pandas) for risk aspects. Application orchestration is done with Docker and Ansible and our monitoring is set up using StatsD, Elasticsearch-Logstash-Kibana.

Customer Support Advisor

Job Description:

At iwoca, we really love our customers, we want them to have the best possible experience. Our Customer Support Agent will be responsible for ensuring that no customer is left unattended and that every call is diverted to the appropriate team. You’ll also be tasked with engaging with our customers and using your sales ability to ensure all customers are knowledgeable about our product.

Data And Risk Engineer

Job Description:

We are looking for Engineer who loves to code and get their hands dirty with raw data. It doesn’t really matter whether people call you an Engineer, Physicist or Mathematician, what matters to us is that you are a curious and continuous learner with a hunger to achieve the very best in what you do.

Account Manager

Job Description:

At iwoca, we really love our customers, we want them to have the best possible experience. We understand that financial matters can be confusing and frustrating for small businesses, so our Account Managers work hard to understand our customers’ financial needs and determine how we can most effectively support them with our product to achieve their business goals.